Spells as ingredients to craft beings

In some editions of the Monsters Manual, the descriptions of the various golems include a list of spells that you need to cast upon their body materials to create them.

• Clay Golem: resurrection, animate object, commune, prayer and bless.
• Flesh Golem: wish, polymorph any object, geas, strength, and protection from normal missiles.
• Iron Golem: cloud kill, wish, geas and polymorph any object.

I like the spell collecting aspect of this, let try to craft lower levels constructs recipes. The moral (ML) rating of these being is determined by their creator's CHA loyalty. If multiple magic users work together to cast the spells, use the CHA of the magic user who cast the last spell. 

I rolled some random spells and I came up with these recipes: 

Level 1 spells recipe: Dreaming Flame Homunculi 

Spells: Shield, Light, Charm Person, Floating Disk and Sleep 

Needed: candle made of rare material worth 1000GP 

1. Cast shield upon the flame to form a magical mold.
2. Gently blow the flame while casting Light into the shield. 
3. Cast Charm Person on the light to give it a personality. 
4. Cast Floating Disk upon Shield to enable it to levitate. 
5. Cast sleep upon the light to connect it to the dreamland.

This create a friendly sleepy will-o-the-wisp like homunculi. 

1+1 HD, AC 15 (17 vs missiles), dream lights: can spend 1HP to shape it light into a illusion coming from someone past dreams (save vs spells to forbid access to your dreams), blinding: save vs spells or be blinded for d4 rounds. 

Level 1 and 2 spells recipe: Language Homunculi 

Spells: Read Language, Detect Magic, Ventriloquism and Detect Invisible 

Needed: magical ink and fine papyrus worth 2000GP 

1. Write random made up words on the papyrus and cast read language on them.
2. This will create a concept chimera, cast detect magic to delimitate it and to be able to perceive it.
3. Cast Ventriloquism on it to give it a voice. 
4. Cast Detect Invisible to enable it to perceive words 

This create a talkative language homunculi, it is insubstantial but faintly glow  when it talk (like a detect magic aura). It can translate spoken language but is unable to read texts. 

It love puns and word plays and you may have a hard time keeping it quiet (not good for stealth). 

It have no HP but can be "killed" by dispel magic. 

Level 2 spells recipe: Mesmerizing Moth 

Spells: Phantasmal Force, Mirror Image, Web and Knock 

Needed: 3000GP worth of silk made from the cocoons of polyphemus moth.

1. Burn the silk and cast Phantasmal Force to shape the smoke into the form of a moth. 
2. Cast Mirror Image on the illusory moth to multiply it. 
3. Cast Web to bind the mirror images together to form a cocoon. 
4. Cast Knock to open the cocoon and release the Mesmerizing Moth.

This create a delicate moth made of living silk. It have 1HP and a AC of  12 but always cast image mirror when attacked to create d4+1 images. It can use the "eyes" on it wings to mesmerize for d6 rounds. It can mesmerize 1 target per mirror image or focus it mirror images on a same target to inflict -1 to saving throw per image. 

Dungeon Hacker

This could be a reskin of the dungeon hacker, using enchanted headphones to listen and record ghostly EVP or a deck jockey class like how Tore N interpreted my illustration:

"The golem was faster than you would have imagined possible. It moved its two-ton bulk like a quicksilver insect. Gragnard the warrior barely had time to put up his shield as another black iron fist descended.

Abigail didn't break a sweat as sparks flew off Gragnag's shield. This was child's play. The golem wasn't even password protected. Abigail typed in a few lines of eldritch code as Eckk the sorcerer's arc lighning bounced harmlessly off the iron guardian.

A few tense seconds, then a static hiss and the golem's eyes lost their polished sheen. "SECURITY MEASURE - OFFLINE" a voice like a broken abacus anounced in her headphones. That had been easy. The warlock-king's trap-tomb had been a disappointment so far.

"DEFENSIVE CONTINGENCY SUBROUTINE DETECTED" Abigail felt a coldness in her belly as green gas started seeping from the room's corners. Deck-Mistress Steihn had always chided her for her arrogance."

A strange machine!

Roll a machine and I will assemble it for you.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/14774698

Portal Golem

Red Golem of chess pieces transfiguration.

Cleric of the Vibrating Cup turning a golem assassin

Teapot golems

Benjamin B contribution on G+:

Nanna Earwart's kitchen guardian.  It has many powers, depending on the blend of tea she places in its head.  Camomile lets it expel a sleep-induing steam. Smoked tea with ginger and juniper allows it to blast foes with a blinding mist that leaves them unable to see.  

"Be a dear, and sit with old Nanna.  We'll have a nice cup, and chat.  I've a lovely white tea brewing, light and clear.  A little slice of lemon is all it needs.  Clean taste, clear conscience.  So easy to talk, so easy to share.   Lovely isn't it?  Now, tell Nanna all about what brought you here." 

Dwarven Golem Armor

A Golem with a dwarf pilot sitting in it. When the pilot is out, the golem can still follow orders.

I guess that some of them can talk.

Mechanical Cerberus Door

Worker Golem Swarm

A swarm of small worker golems have been mining stones all over the kingdom. But now they are deconstructing stone by stone whole villages and towns. No one was able to communicate with them. They simply ignore people and only become aggressive when hindered or attacked.

They seem made of clay except for their head box that seem made of basalt. Multiple eyes are carved on the surface of their head box, but it not clear if they are a sensory devices or just symbolic decorations. If their head box is removed their body cease to function and become a shapeless mass of clay. The plug part of their head box is covered in hieroglyphs of unknown origins. 

People have started to sight strange monoliths near the golems zones of activities. The function of those monoliths remain unknown, but we believe that they are some kind of storing or charging device for the head boxes. There is also rumors of a giant golem overseer that watch over the monoliths and that recuperate lost head boxes.

Other rumors claims that the worker golems are building a gigantic dungeon-like temple fill with statues and monoliths. Some say that some monoliths in the temple contain special head boxes fill with dreams and memories. Other claim that deep in the dungeon there is a alien device that can transmute material into anything, including gold. Other say that a other device can record memories and personality into special head boxes. And that the statues are in fact wondrous bodies that will serves as receptacles for the special head boxes. Madmen whisper that the golems are not building a temple, but a caern or some sort of bunker in prevision of a coming calamity or cataclysm.   

A giant creature made of human bodies. 

Drawing request of Vincent Q.